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\in chicago, the police superintendent and mayor rahm emanuel slam prosecutors for suddenly dropping 16 felony charges against small it. we will try to get to the bottom of what is going on and a live report with breaking details minutes away. the president outlines a new aggressive space goal he wants to reach by any means necessary. welcome to fox news at night. we begin with trace gallagher and that bombshell in the jussie smollett case. >> reporter: no new evidence or witness testimony and no explanation why the charges against jussie smollett will drop. the state attorney claimed he was treated like any other defendant who has no felony criminal background and was not involved in a violent crime yet the same attorneys says we should not equate dropped charges with innocence. >> we stand behind the investigation and our decision to approve charges and indict him. the investigation itself was outstanding. >> the lead investigator in the alleged hate crime hoax and chicago police superintendent eddie johnson both say the case was rocksolid. >> at the end of the day this mister smal

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the dismissal has put a rift between them and chicago's mayor, rahm emanuel. emanuel is considering suing smollett to recoup money spent in the investigation. laura podesta is here in new york to bring us up to speed. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. the biggest question mark with the story is why the charges were dropped. police say there was plenty of evidence to prosecute smollett. so it's leading people to speculate about what information the state's attorney's office doesn't want the public to know. a surprise decision in the case against jussie smollett. a chicago prosecutor dropped all charges against the "empire" actor. >> i've been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one. i would not be my mother's son if i was capable of one drop of what i've been accused of. >> reporter: smollett, who is gay, claimed he was attacked in january by two men who hurled racist and homophobic slurs. but police say he paid the two men to stage the attack to help his career. yesterday, though, with little explanation as to why, 16 fel

by the way, i'm pretty sure that rahm emanuel wouldn't say that he agrees with the president. but the city of chicago wants more than $130,000 from jussie smollett to cover the cost of the investigation into his claim that he was attacked in a hate crime. here's rahm emanuel, the mayor. >> when he does pay the city back, i'm just purely -- what the taxpayers have fronted. in that memo section he can write, "i'm sorry and i'm accountable for what i've done." >> tonight you should know, you should stick around, remember the witnesses and the people and that surveillance tape, they were trying to figure out who they are were and they caught up with them and they turned out to be brothers who he knew from the set, nigerians, it went on and on. we'll talk to the attorney of the brothers that police say were paid by jussie smollett to stage the attack. you don't want to miss that interview. and the man who set up that infamous trump tower meeting with russians, he is speaking out tonight. his name is rob goldstone. he's going to be here on-set with me, next. i landed. i saw my leg d

the thing that was really disgusting to me was to hear rahm emanuel and the superintendent of police say this has been a black eye on the city, he owes the city an apology. i think if anybody owes the city an apology it should be rahm emanuel himself, the superintendent of police, that they solve 5% of nonfatal shootings in chicago. so that is basically, you shoot someone, you have a 95% chance -- >> tucker: i literally couldn't agree with you more. i'm nodding in absolute agreement. i think rahm emanuel has done a horrible job as mayor, and i think the police superintendent should be ashamed, i totally agree. but jussie smollett made it worse. so because he is rich and famous and went on "gma," cried with robin roberts, he sucked up a huge percentage of the resources of the chicago police department that should be going to solving shootings. >> but they weren't going to solving shootings. or at least they weren't actually working prior to jussie smollett. >> tucker: he made it worse, don't you think?ea >> to claim that the black eye on the city of chicago comes from jussie smollett,

we are awaiting reaction from chicago officials now, including mayor rahm emanuel, after this decision. smollett's attorneys are declaring his record wiped clean. here is smollett, just a short time ago, making his first statement to reporters outside the courtroom. >> i have been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one. i would not be my mother's son if i was capable of one drop of what i have been accused of. this has been an incredibly difficult time. honestly, one of the worst of my entire life. but i'm a man of faith, and i am a man that has knowledge of my history. i would not bring my family from our lives, or the movement through a fire like this. i just wouldn't. >> harris: matt finn on the story on learning as it has been breaking in chicago. the courthouse, with the latest. matt? >> harris, jussie smollett was indicted on 16 felony counts of disorderly conduct for filing a false police report. he was scheduled to be back in here in court in april. suddenly this morning with very little notice there was an emergency hearing in which the prosecutors filed a

maybe rahm emanuel harding hiding his fury even this morning. >> he abused the city of chicago. he actually committed a crime here. he lied about something. >> palace intrigue. new reporting this morning from politico about what went down behind the scenes of the white house before the decision to repeal obamacare. the fight spilling on to capitol hill as republicans take aim at the aca while democrats introduce new legislation to expand benefits. >>> legal liability. after the drugmaker behind oxycontin agrees to a $270 million lawsuit with oklahoma will, what about the hundreds of others who want someone to pay for the prescription drug epidemic? what that settlement prevents us from finding out and who is ultimately responsible for a crisis that's claimed so many lives? but let's begin today with a brand-new and controversial time frame for the release of most, not all, of the mueller report. on one side we're hearing from justice officials who say give us weeks, not months tonight go through everything. congressional democrats however saying we were serious when we said the

lou: what a mess we're in. >> one thing it did do it made rahm emanuel on his closing days unify with the police superintendent on the same cause. >> who thought we would see rahm emanuel with law and order. >> he might still be mayor if he behaved that way when he had the job. lou: deputy of homeland security. this border is wide open. an invitation to a disaster, we have dhs officials walking around whining about protecting the border this is ignore a ign. dereliction of their duty. they are paralyzed and they are whining, i can't think of a worse combination. >> now open border, wide open. the statistics are staggering. >> it was twice as bad under bush, he had maybe more than half number of agents that we have now, what is the problem. >> my sense is that men on border, men and women don't feel they are being backed up. lou: this is the president who is the law enforcement. michael, the guy who said, he's to support. he loves law enforcement. and they look abandoned at that border because of kirstjen nielson. a secretary who is clearly, as i said earlier, if i have seen an example

." >> meanwhile, outgoing mayor rahm emanuel has billed smollett for the cost of the litigation.he city sent smollett a bill for $130,000. it's due in five days. >> to contradict earlier statements from her whether her office would have won a conviction, what is the conversation there? >> yeah, it's a little bit strange, isn't it, in that op-ed that you just read from, it almost appears that kim fox is siding with jussie smollett's legal team. they have come out and publicly criticized the chicago police department, saying that the police will try this case in public. but that does convitradict what she says to reporters just a couple of days ago, take a listen to that. >> jussie smollett had not been found guilty by a court of law. we believe that the facts were sufficient to charge mr. smollett for the crimes. this office believed that he could prove him guilty. >> now, when the charges were dropped against jussie smollett, kim foxx's office, she recused herself from the case. but her assistant said, listen, this happens tens of thousands of times a year that a case like this g

use a tape of the mayor of chicago, rahm emanuel, and he repeated twice the phrase "how dare him, howwant you to let you know what you be "how dare he, how dare he" there just wanted to make that clear before we proceed. joining us that was jason nichols, professor of african-american studies at the university of maryland, and i was happy to have him. it seems to me, professor, nobody disputes the guild, the police, the mayor, the prosecutor's, even the state's attorney who let him off, saying it didn't happen. it doesn't does seem like a clr example of a rich, famous guy with connections getting a different standard of justice. getting away with something because he can. >> first of all, i think jussie smollett deserves the presumption of innocence. >> tucker: for sure. >> it hasn't been proven that he is guilty of any kind of crime. the thing that was really disgusting to me was to hear it rahm emanuel and the superintendent of police sit there and say this has been a black eye on the city, he holds no market was the city an apology. i think of anybody owns the city and apology it s

as top prosecutor claims she gave same treatment to jussie she would give to anything else, and rahm emanuel agrees. >> they better get their story straight, this is making a fool of all of us, this look like because he is an actor, a person of influence he got treated differently. kennedy: damn skippy, chicago police furious. tells fox news they smell a political rat, and smollett's attorney said there was no suspicious about the fact that jussie smollett called his attackers right before, totally normal. >> police have phone records of him talking to proeithers before and after. and -- brothers before and after, and in africa. >> not an hour after. this is fall, i have seen phone recordsy. >> did talk to them. >> he did. he had just hired one brother to train him for his upcoming music video. kennedy: weird. i don't call my music video trainer at 2 in the morning, but that just me, jussie smollett's attorney maintain they could file a lawsuit to clear his name, his next day in court could be courtesy of fbi, they, investigating whether he sent his self the hate le letter. will we ever lear

chicago mayor rahm emanuel slamming the president, claiming he is the reason that smollett allegedly his hate crime. >> let me be really clear about something. the only reason jussie smollett thought he could take advantage of a hoax around the hate crime is the toxic environment that donald trump created paired >> martha: here now, ben shapiro, editor in chief of "the daily wire" and author of the book "the right side of history," a number one "new york times" best seller. congratulations on the new book, good to see you tonight. >> great to see you too. >> martha: what do you make of the woman from the congressional black caucus and rahm emanuel saying this kind of thing, this jussie smollett thing, wouldn't be happening if it weren't for the tensions that exist in this country thanks to president trump? >> that's obviously untrue. we have seen racial hoaxes before, going back to al sharpton in the 1980s. the story as there is an actor who wanted to increase his pay according to the chicago police department, and so he decided to perpetuate a racial hoax with half the country in th

so the outgoing mayor, rahm emanuel, he was furious.vestigation, but you mentioned there was, i guess, a deal made. you pay that $10,000 back, but did they miss their opportunity to try to get him to pay $130,000 as well on condition? as a condition? >> smollett's lawyers are saying he paid all he needs to pay and, in fact, the only thing that is owed now is an apology to jussie smollett from rahm emanuel and the superintendent of the police. yeah, $130,000, he's supposed to pay that by thursday. now, the question is will they see any of that money? probably not because he wasn't actually convicted of anything. so it's then difficult to ask him for money for a crime that he wasn't actually convicted of. so legal opinion -- >> that would be an admission, wouldn't it? >> yeah. rahm emanuel wants jussie smollett -- he said kind of jokingly, i want him to write, i am accountable in the memo section. unlikely they will get that money, but they're asking for it. >> right. okay. just to underscore your point earlier from foxx, the prosecutor,

. >> and here comes chicago mayor rahm emanuel and the police chief.from them now -- superintendent of police eddie johnson and rahm emanuel. let listen in. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon sir. >> so listen, i'm sure we all know what occurred this morning. my personal opinion is that you all know where i stand on this. do i think justice was served? no. where do i think justice is? i think this city is still owed and apology. and digress. i've been on cop for 30 years. if someone accused me of doing anything th anything, i would want high day in court to clear my name. i've heard that they wanted their day in court with tv cameras so america could know the truth. know they chose to hide behind secrecy and broker a deal to circumvent the judicial system. my job as a police officer is to investigate an incident, gather evidence, gather the facts and brebts them to t present them to the state's attorney. that's what we did. i stand behind the detective's investigation. i'll let the mayor comment further. >> one, not only do i support the hard work of

he is good to go that is good for the prosecutors but that's not a good enough for the cops or rahm emanuelwanted to cover the cost of the investigation or the president who was the fbi to investigate did you ever think you'd see rahm emanuel and trump agree? so my favorite part is that jusse smollett is best off by betraying him to talk about the deal he is mad that they lied. [laughter] . >> there is a lesson if you get away with something you shouldn't you don't step out of the courthouse to say if i was not my mother son. and talk trash. they didn't bring this up and acting school. you are not done that little letter in your hand fbi mister president the post office will give you a call. after you are done you will be in a federal penitentiary doing theater night. it is not over. >> that's a nice plug for the next segment. i think that jusse smollett may be getting worse punishment than he would have received because i think his career is dried up who will hire him? . >> he is back on the show. >> really? i think it is ridiculous. >> think about what other people go to jail for. people

george. >> okay, alex, thanks very much. >>> let's bring in the mayor of chicago, rahm emanuel., thank you for joining us this morning. >> good morning, george. >> pretty clear yesterday how angry you are over this. you called it a whitewash of justice. top to bottom not on the level, those are your words. should the prosecutors be investigated and should this decision be investigated? >> well, that's for others -- look, here's what i do know. you have the state's attorney's office saying he's not exonerated, he actually did commit this hoax. he's saying he's innocent and his words aren't true. they better get their story straight. because this is actually making a fool of all of us. you know, all over the city of chicago, george, there are signs on front yards and windows that says hate has no home here. he turned those values upside down and inside out. >> a lot of people are wondering -- >> he abused the city of chicago, and he actually committed a crime here and lied about something and, remember, the grand jury indicted him when only seeing a portion of the evidence and he

chicago's police superintendent and mayor rahm emanuel are slamming the cook county state attorney'sffice for suddenly dropping 16 felony counts of lying to police against actor jussie smollett. >> this is all of the name of self-promotion, this is a whitewash of justice. >> it's mr. smollett who committed this hoax, period. if he wanted to clear his name, the way to do that was in a court of law. >> in an emergency hearing, the judge granted the prosecutor's request to drop charges, in a statement the cook county attorney's office said after reviewing all of the facts and circumstances of the case including mr. smollett's volunteer service in the community and agreement to forfeit his bond to the city of chicago, we believe this outcome is justice and appropriate resolution to this case. >> i have been truthful and consistent on every level since day one. i would not be my mother's son if i was capable of one drop of what i've been accused of. >> superintendent eddie johnson said police carried out an investigation with dozens of detectives and concluded that smollett cut a $3500 ch

>> that's the other thing that enraged me rahm emanuel.y did they drop the charges but they sealed the documents so my requests for freedom of documentation will not be responded to. and there was so much more, if you are going to do that you will at least get a plea deal. >> that was reported by multiple outlets. or the nigeria brothers. >> i'm working on it. >> i bet you are. i want to know what their other sideline is now. all right guys, thank you so much for joining us. it's very important, nothing to laugh at but, very important in some of these situations. will obama's and tallchief really be let off the hook? and what about those in the presence of or suffered in the result?t mike cavuto joined us next and he will tell us the story of what it's like to be in mueller's cross hairs. ♪ trelegy 1-2-3 trelegy with trelegy and the power of 1-2-3, i'm breathing better. trelegy works 3 ways to... ...open airways,... ...keep them open... ...and reduce inflammation... ...for 24 hours of better breathing. trelegy won't replace a rescue inhale

as rahm emanuel reminded people today, there was a grand jury.his is separate and aside from the police, who handed up all of these indictments. he said testify just a sliver of what police put together. it is clear the police are not backing down and neither will the mayor. >> dana: i do want to ask you one other legal question. this was about the trump administration deciding to go forward. explain what they tried to do to try to eliminate obama care. >> republicans campaigned on this. president campaigned on this. there was a ruling by a texas federal judge in which he said, now that the tax law the republicans passed zeros out that individual mandate tax or penalty that you would have to pay on your taxes, the under pinnings of the law is no longer there. that's what the supreme court used to uphold this thing. the federal judge said the whole thing has to go, but i'll keep the law in play while this proceeds on merits. administration had said we don't necessarily agree with that. yesterday they filed with the court saying, yep, we agree with

rahm emanuel suddenly president am going of going to open in baseball cube. >> americans myself includedutraged by this, the fact that this guy faked a hate crime. look, i'm a minority. you are a woman. aat if we were to be attacked legitimately and now we are going to be less believed by police and prosecutors because of the example of this guy. a lot of americans realize something ought to be done to it second, this is why we have u.s. justice department. maybe they spent a lot of a lot of time investigating president trump to no goodma effect, but they now make sure there's no corruption going on in state department. where mrs. obama's chief of staff because the prosecutor kim foxx and all of a sudden these machinations occur and the case gets dropped? that is exactly what the justice department is supposed to be involved in is to make sure that there is no corruption in state government. so i hope that president trump is right and the fbi are starting in investigation to look into this. >> laura: what's the potential criminal exposure here both for foxx and the state attorney itself?

. >> jedediah: chicago mayor rahm emanuel is still furious, saying he's going to send smollett a bill cost of the investigation. speak at the police are assembling their cost. they will do that, and then the and counselor should city of chicago will communicate to jussie smollett and his legal team about recouping their cost. given that he doesn't feel any sense of contrition and remorse, my recommendation is that when he writes the check, in the memo section, he can put the word "i'm accountable" for the hoax. >> jedediah: revelations leading to more questions than answers. president trump announced this morning that the doj and the fbi will be reviewing the case. greg, i'm confused about something. if everybody thought he was guilty, now you have fox coming out saying it's not an exoneration. you have the prosecutor that she handed it to saying it's not an exoneration. why is there no guilty plea? why is this guy able to go out and tell everybody he's innocent and get away with it? >> greg: because they made a deal. he has a very powerful friend somewhere. it's amazing, smollett is

the current mayor, rahm emanuel is not running for reelection and the debate is courtesy of nbc five and telemundo chicago. nbc tower, decision 2019, the race for chicago mayor. brought to you by nbc5 and telemundo chicago, the union league of chicago, and the chicago urban league. >> good evening i'm carol marine, the political editor of nbc chicago. broadcasting live from the nbc tower, during the next hour we'll explore the critical issues facing the city of chicago. tonight we hear from the two candidates for mayor. our forum is sponsored by nbc5 and telemundo chicago, in partnership with the chicago urban league, and the union league club of chicago. here now, are the candidates. lori lightfoot, former federal prosecutor, past president of the chicago police board and former partner at the law firm of mayor brown. toni preckwinkle, cook county board president, and share of the cook county democratic party. one thing is certain, an african american woman for the first time in history will be our next mayor. we thank everyone who is watching at home and in our audience. our forum

. >> mayor rahm emanuel hoping to bill smollett for the cost of the investigation. >> when he writes the check in the memo section, he can put the words "i'm accountable." >> budget airline wow air has shut down, stranding passengers across two con innocents. >> not only was the flying canceled, the airline was canceled. >> glor: and on opening day, the effort to steer a new generation into baseball. >> i got to do what i can do to make a change. >> glor: good evening. i'm jeff glor. we'll begin tonight with new information and controversy over the mueller report. we learned today the report is more than 300 pages long. the attorney general sent out a four-page summary of that. the special counsel said there was no evidence of collusion but left open the question of obstruction. the attorney general says no on obstruction, but democrats are demanding the full 300 pages. republicans want a top democrat ousted from his post. here's ed o'keefe. >> i don't think it's okay. >> reporter: democrat adam schiff strongly defended himself today against republican calls for his resignation as ch

that clearly did not happen here, and i hope thewe federal authorities look at it there i think rahm emanuele chicago pd, i think they will be pushing for it to them should. this is a very, very serious accusation. >> sean: big picture between the 16-year-old that was frankly bludgeoned and beaten and called names in a rush to judgment, nicholas sandmann, and this case, really, dan bongino back to this irrational, psychotic rage and hatred of trump. both cases. >> this smollett case is bigger than jussie smollett. americans are angry right now. they are, could this have come at a worse time, sean? we have the college admission scandal, where everyone is on a superhighway to power and stardom, while all of the rest of us working people are suffering on the toll roads, right? you have the spygate debacle, the collusion hoax blown up, the media's credibility is completely falling apart, and while facing b the justice system, the media, it's collapsing. at the same time, you have a well-connected hollywood actor who gets off. i was a cop and a federal agent, not a lawyer like miss bondi, but i h

mayor rahm emanuel said that the actor is a liar, and justice, so far, has not been served. >> he ispulled a hoax around a hate crime. or he is totally a victim and innocent. you both can't be right, the city of chicago deserves an answer. they deserve answer about responsible in the system. reporter: jussie smollett's attorney firing back at rahm emanuel releasing this statement, it is the mayor, and police chief who owe jussie an apology for dragging an innocent man's character through the mud. and tells state attorney that that the attorney never formally recused herself. kim fox said her office could have convicted smollett but it would have had the same result, the state attorney said her office chosal t alternative prosecution. >> it is fair to say that the police department is not happy on every decision that we make. i think that the notoriety around this case has somehow cast i think an unreasonable expectation that police deputy and us will not agree on every case. reporter: national district attorney association that say its represents 2700 prosecution offices in country r

rahm emanuel is up there and help president obama but they hate crime laws into action. no justice for the memory of matthew shepard and the other people who have been victims of actual hate crimes. it's appalling all around. >> there shouldn't be an empire two. there should probably be done. >> the president of the removal of obamacare. where are they? you seem a little hesitant about this. we are live on capitol hill next. >> i don't dink we should strike it down until we have a replacement. and by replacement ending a program that looks like somebody designed the thing on purpose. our grandparents checked their smartphones zero times a day. times change. eyes haven't. that's why there's ocuvite. screen light... sunlight... longer hours... eyes today are stressed. but ocuvite has vital nutrients... ...to help protect them. ocuvite. eye nutrition for today. when it comes to type 2 diabetes, are you thinking about your heart? well, i'm managing my a1c, so i should be all set. actually, you're still at risk for a fatal heart attack or stroke. that's where jardiance comes

she is running for mayor to replace rahm emanuel.his is how chicago works. >> greg: what's his name? >> jesse: preckwinkle. this is how it works. they tried to sell obama's senate seat. fox has been accused of trading political donations to get felons out of prison. she's been accused three times for doing that. also she's been exchanging emails and text messages with michelle obama's people. michelle obama's people have been discussing things with smollett's family members. the guys rich and famous, so there you have it. the country, thankfully, sometimes for us, rich and famous people will get off of thayer well-connected. in the worst cases, you have o.j. simpson. you have jeffrey epstein and the small ball situation. >> juan: don't forget donald trump. >> jesse: okay, juan. we will get to you in a minute. [laughter] justin bieber, paris hilton, dui, they can get off. the worst part is that they spit in the eye of the chicago police and they did it in plain sight. they wasted 1,000 hours on this, reviewing video surveillance, 24 d

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as you mentioned, we are waiting for him reaction from rahm emanuel, chicago mayor. and chicago please. there's a lot of buzz in anticipation of a response from chicago police. they had a weeks-long investigation that they called meticulous. dozens of detectives on this investigation, and they were under immense public pressure. not only here in the city but globally, really, as all eyes were on this case for many week weeks. there were so many theories floating around. finally, andy johnson got in front of cameras weeks ago and they laid out what they consider considers an airtight investigation. they said they traced the osundairo brothers. and that jussie smollett paid them to carry out this attack. they had so many details to support that theory. suddenly all the sudden the prosecutors say they no longer want to prosecute jussie smollett. the judge on that. something to point out is that the cook county state attorney kim fox recused herself from this investigation. there was a major headline in this case. that she suddenly said she could not fairly prosecute the

rahm emanuel was among those asking the questions. the chicago pd, everybody's asking, "what that happened her here?" we should find out. >> harris: the black leadership network reportedly is asking the questions too. they caught our attention at first because it was a hate crime. >> david: a legend. >> harris: alleges hate crime, thank you. and political. legitimately, we are covering this and purged to find it would happen. obviously it's a hot talker. we will move on. president trump once again threatening to close the nation's southern border. warning that countries like mexico and honduras are doing nothing to stop the flow of migrants into our country. whether the growing crisis bolsters the president's emergency declaration. we will talk about it. republicans in the house intelligence committee are recommending that chairman adam schiff stepped down as chair over his repeated claims of trump-russia collusion, falling apart after robert mueller's findings. but schiff is not backing down. the battle ahead. >> you might think it's

and rahm emanuel get on t.v. with this idea we talked about it and you pointed it out brilliantly which was it's innocent till proven guilty technically he's innocent of this crime because they never actually went to trial they never. manual made it absolutely possible for a gay black man who was accused of lying to the police to get a fair trial from minute one he couldn't get a fair trial because of the way that it was handled and to me that is the part where were you saying is who's who is in a sense to hold on to that innocent till proven guilty because that's they get away with this because they say you're guilty that's how they shoot people in the street and to me it's no different you know you're one hundred percent right. just to add on to what is just what you put that much. right as other things go unnoticed has national attention here's this national attention to how light the real issues are not someone cried over their salary if that's the case made it all that into every day only know that i thought

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everyone from rahm emanuel to the president smelled a huge deep dish pizza scented rat, they knew thedeath threat did not register. >> why should he, i have to get out of jail free card moment you call in a political favor, this whole charade does nothing to improve criminal justice system when a famous privileged person, uses his political connection to skirt justice. >> kim foxx does nothing to heal racial divide and police mistrust in her city, but if there is a glimmer of fairness, she be admonished. he will use corruption as a stepping stone. that is the memo. >> jussie smollett did not escape president's wrath at the michigan rally. watch this. >> how about in chicago. he said -- he said he was attacked by maga country, you hear that one? maybe the orc the only time i er agreed with the mayor of chicago, that is a terrible situation, than embarrassment not only to chicago that is an emare about a asemas am to our . kennedy: today president they'd is fbi and justice department of looking into the case, media ran with the jussie story until it unraveled. will they hold kim foxx an

chicago mayor rahm emanuel finally found his balance, his footing. took days for the mayor the inept and correct radical mayor to blame none other than president trump for the jussie smollett scandal. we would expect nothing more from this mayor, the most corrupt city in the most corrupt county in the entire nation. we take it up with sydney aviello 20 advisory board member jenna alice the "washington times" charlie hurt and pastor robert jeffers is with us as well. our top story president trump has had enough of the invasion of illegal immigrants crossing our southern border. the president said it's time for the government of mexico to act responsibly to stop encouraging and helping illegal immigrants reach our border and then cross it. >> it's a horrible situation in mexico could stop it. we are going give them hundreds of millions of dollars and tell them that they are going to use their strong immigration laws to help the united states. there's a good likelihood i will be closing the border next week and i will be just fine with me. >> the presid

rahm emanuel calls it a whitewash of justice. chicago's police union wants the justice department to investigate. >> smollett was charged with 16 felony counts earlier this month after allegedly lying to police that he was targeted in a hate crime attack. the cast member of "empire" denies the allegations. prosecutors indicate they have more important cases to pursue. a big head scratcher. adriana diaz is in chicago with a decision that came with no warning and little explanation. good morning. >> reporter: the charges were dropped after smollett served just two days of community service this past week. and agreed to forfeit $10,000 bond even though we're told the city spent more than 150,000 on his case. in this building we sat down with the lead prosecutor who made the decision to drop charges. he believes smollett is guilty but smollett says the news problems his innocence. city leaders are furious because they say the evidence against the actor is overwhelming. >> mr. smollett is still saying that he is innocent, still runnin

chicago mayor rahm emanuel wants jussie smollett emanuel wants jussie smollett to pay more than $130,000n into smollett's claims of a hate crime. the illinois attorney general has also been asked to review the handling of the case. joining me now, someone who knows full well his way around a courtroom, knows about the charges. he was there when the charges were dropped. his name is andrew weisberg, criminal defense attorney and cook county prosecutor. am i correct, were you there when the charges were dropped? >> yes, don. thank you. >> good evening to you. thank you so much. let's talk about this. what in the world is going on here? the cook county -- the cook county state's attorney issued a statement saying, this is kim foxx, did not formally recuse herself from the smollett case, rather she informally separated herself from the decisionmaking. what does that mean? >> well, that's confusing. because my initial interpretation was she recused herself and was going to completely stay out of the matter. and then apparently now she's back in, at least on the back end, discussing the case.

the city of chicago ram rahm emanuel calls the actor a liar. >> he is either a person that pulled a hoaxund a hate crime for his racial background and sexual orientation. or a victim an innocent. but you bothn ' can't be right,e city of chicago deserves an answer. reporter: jussie smollett's attorney immediately fired back at rahm emanuel for demanding accountability and money, writing in part, it is mayor and police chief who owe jussie smollett's an apology, this afternoon kim foxx's spokesperson said that she never fully recused herself in the investigation, and never had actual conflict of interest, she did not have to seek the appointment of a special prosecutor. fofoxx said her office could hae convicted smollett but it would have resulted in the same outcome. >> fair to say that police department is not happy to every san diego wdecision we make, i t notoriety around this case, cast an unreasonable expectation that police department and us will agree on every case. reporter: also national district attorney association that say its represents 2700 prosecution officers in country re

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